Forced-ventilation apparatus for vehicle-windows.



v A. THODE. FORCED VENTILATION APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE WINDOWS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-18,1913.

Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

@M n 67 W2 W 6 Z X to locate the outlet otherwise than as illustrated. Such an arrangement is found highly satisfactory in practicalrailroading.

The inlet 6 being adjacent to the car floor, and the outlet 7 adjacent to its roof, where the motions of the air relatively to thecar are respectively minimum and maximum, and moreover there being actual air movement due to displacement, and maximum and minimum at the same locations, and the friction and thereby induced suction being greatest where the relative motion is greatest, air is sucked out of the outlet 7, flows in at the inlet 6 and makes a current through the passage 1, as indicated by the arrow B, even when the louvers are closed; as they must be when car is bucking deep snow, to prevent it from clogging the air passage. The fact that the outlet is in the car face does not prevent issuing currents and displacement thereby of a part of the air into which the car is running; for, whether the atmosphere be still or in motion, the velocity and momentum of said issuing air exceeds, by amounts due to the motion of the car, the velocity and momentum (if there be any) of the air which it displaces. Suppose, for example, that the atmosphere is still, the car is running 10 feet per second and that its motion causes a current of four and a half feet per second vertically through the passage 4:; the air in said passage moves forward with the car as well as vertically, and its actual motion is substantially 11 feet per second along the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle whose base measures 10 and whose height is 5 feet. As such air'is actually moving faster than the car, it can discharge from the car face; and the air in front of the car will not prevent such discharge because its only actual motion is transverse, due to its displacement. If the car were running into the wind, the wind would increase the velocity of the issuing current, whose velocity and momentum would be the sum of remainders of the primary or wind velocity and momentum, plus those due to the cars motion; and the issuing current would continue. Said current will keep unobscured the pa sage faces of the panes, 2, 20 and 19, over which it passes.

Nhe'n cars equipped with the usual front window drive into moisture-laden or saturated atmosphere, the air, piling on the panes, and temporarily losing its velocity, loses also its carrying capacity and deposits its burden on the glass. To prevent such clouding on the face of my sight pane 19, I hinge adjacent to its bottom rail the upper louver 8, which, when inclined, constitutes a deflector and deflects across the sight pane an air current which cleanses it of moisture and will generally protect it.

The above statement of actual velocities shows very clearly that when the car runs into very high head winds and precipita tion, it may be desirable to increase the velocity of the issuing current. I therefore provide the medial opening A, the louvers 811 and their adjusting mechanism. If it were necessary to keep the lighting pane 20 clear (which it is not) I would locate the louvers below or another deflector adjacent to it. But since the driver looks only through the sight pane, and the lighting pane will light the car even when considerably obscured, I make the sight pane of size and height proper for its use and locate the louvers medially; and make them of glass the better to light the car.

To give the maximum range and efficiency to the apparatus, the louvered opening A is located substantially on the center of gravity of the car face, where the air density due to the drive of the car is maximum. Then the driver wishes to increase the velocity of the protective air currents he moves the louvers toward 15 dip, at which declination their efficiency and the current 90 velocities are maximum; the louvers, as the car drives them into the air, deflect it into and upward through the'passage 4:, with an acceleration whose limit is the velocity of the car itself. The velocity due to this cause may be increased by the suction of the relatively back-rushing atmosphere.

If the acceleration due to the apparatus gave car-speed to the current through the air passage, then with still atmosphere, the actual motion of the air current would be 1.414 times car speed up the hypotenuse of an isosceles right angled triangle.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim:

1. In combination with a vehicle having a window in its front wall, a housing in front of said window inclosing an air passage provided with an opening. at its upper end, there being an opening at its lower end of substantially the same size as said upper opening, a transparent member disposed below said upper opening, and there being a plurality ofintermediate openings each of substantially the. same size as said upper opening, deflectors in said intermediate openings to deflect the incoming air through said air passage in an upward direction, so that the aggregate forces composed of the naturally ascending air in front of a moving vehicle and the upwardly impelled forces created bysaid deflectors will overpower the force of air that would tend to come in through said upper opening and thereby force the air out. of said upper opening. I

2. In combination with a vehicle having a window in its front wall, a housing in front of said window inclosing an air passageand provided with an opening at its 139 upper end, there being an opening at its lower end, a transparent member disposed below said upper opening, there being a plurality of intermediate openings disposed below said transparent member, deflectors in said intermediate openings to deflect the incoming air through said air passage in an upward direction, said deflectors being pivotally mounted in said housing, and means for regulating the inclination of said deflectors.

3. In combination with a vehicle having a window in its front wall, a housing in front-0f said window inclosing an air passage provided with an opening at its upper end, there being an opening at its lower end of substantially the same size as said upper opening, a transparent member disposed below said upper opening, there being a plurality of intermediate openings each of substantially the same size as said upper opening and disposed below said transparent member, deflectors in said intermediate openings to deflect the incoming air through said air passage in an upward direction, so that the aggregate forces composed on the naturally ascend ing air in front of a moving vehicle andthe upwardly impelled forces created by said deflectors will overpower the force of air that would tend to come in through said upper opening and thereby force the air out of said upper opening, and means for regulating the inclination of said deflectors.

ALBERT TI-IODE. Witnesses: 1

HAROLD D. PENNEY, JOHN MORRIS.

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